Pumpkin Patch Soap

Summer is ending soon and I am ready for fall. I am already craving those comfort foods and sweet bakery smells. My first fall soap is Pumpkin Patch - I used my favorite pumpkin fragrance oil (Pumpkin Crunch). It has aromatic notes of fresh pumpkin, orange peel, sweet carrot, ground cinnamon, clove buds, nutmeg and vanilla cream. This scent will leave you craving more.

The top of the soap is sprinkled with body safe glitter to add a little bling to the soap.

Monster Eyes

I am working on creating some creepy looking Halloween soaps. This one is my monster eye soap, they have creepy eyes but smell oh so sweet. I have some other creepy creations coming soon.

Swiper

Chance from Perfect Chance Photography takes all of my wonderful product pictures for my Etsy shop. She takes the pictures when her son is sleeping for one big reason......

 

She was just finishing up taking pictures of my jumbo bubblegum lip balms when her son woke up and immediately made a beeline for them. What a cutie!

Camo Soap

It is hunting season again so I decided to make a soap for my husband and son who are avid hunters. Shouldn't all hunters use camo soap during hunting season? Of course this soap is unscented because they can't be going out in the woods smelling like a bakery. This soap is also "man sized", it is close to double the size of my normal bar of soaps. Right now the soap is still curing so it won't be listed in my etsy store for 3 weeks.

Birthday Party

My daughter's birthday is July 6 and is such a hard time to plan a birthday party since usually her friends are out of town for the holiday. This year we decided to hold off on a party for her until school started.

The party was Friday night. Ashley had 5 friends come over for a sleep over. It went great.

I made a birthday banner using my Silhouette, it was really easy to make.

I purchased these cute mason jar cups and paper straws for each girl and cut out each girls name in vinyl. It was my first time cutting vinyl so it was a little challenging for me with the tiny letters. As you can see from the picture the "l" moved a little from use. The cups worked out great and it was so nice not having paper cups and juice boxes all over the house.

 They made yarn monsters for the first craft.

The second craft I heated up river rocks in the oven and then they used crayons to color them. When the rocks are hot the crayons just melt onto the rocks. The girls then decided that they needed some bling so I brought out the glitter glue. When the were finished I used Modge Podge to seal their artwork. The blue rock is Justin's - he is still planning on adding fins to it to make it into a shark.

The silly birthday girl

Hanger Soap Results

My hanger soap turned out great! I was very happy with it. If only I would have remembered to put the fragrance oil in it though. I will be making this soap again....with fragrance.

Swirling Soap with a Hanger

Yesterday I decided to try a new soap swirl called the "Hanger Swirl". I am not a fan of wire hangers so this task did not start of smoothly. After searching the entire house I couldn't find a suitable wire hanger, luckily my mother-in-law had a few and brought them over. Since my son was bored I showed him a picture of how the hanger needed to be shaped and let him do the rest. He did a great job and then I was ready to test it.

The hanger worked great! I swirled 3 colors - black (activated charcoal), uncolored soap, and red. Once I finished and was admiring my soap I realized that I forgot to add the fragrance (see glass of fragrance oil next to my soap log). Well, it was too late to do anything about it so this soap will just have to be unscented.

It still is a mystery what the soap will look like until I cut it tomorrow, I will post a picture once I cut it.

Where the Soap Magic Happens

Many soapers have a separate workshop for soaping, unfortunately I do not. I make all my soaps in my kitchen. My husband says it looks like a meth lab when I am soaping but in the end I make sure there is no trace of my soaping mess.

I mix the lye solution out in my driveway because the fumes are pretty bad...I always wonder if cars that drive by our house  (I am out there in my goggles, face mask and gloves) think I am involved in something illegal.

My clean kitchen after soaping